Netflix Confirms 'Enola Holmes 3' Production is Afoot

Enola Holmes is back on the case, as filming for the third installment in the ongoing franchise has commenced in Malta, according to Netflix. One of the streaming service's more dependable hits of the 2020s, the adaptations of Nancy Springer's middle-grade children's books first debuted on Netflix during the pandemic, after Warner Bros. Pictures sold the film rights rather than try to hold out until theaters reopened. It was a perfect fit for Netflix, as the main stars of the film are all best known for starring in other topline hits from the streaming service and has gone on to become one of its flagship movie titles.

Springer's novels are Sherlock Holmes stories for the modern, discerning reader, aged 8-13, starring Sherlock's heretofore unmentioned younger sister, Enola. A 14-year-old boarding school attendee who initially runs away to solve the mystery of her mother's disappearance, Enola currently stars in ten books and counting, which trace her journey from  14 year old truant to a young lady who livs in her own boarding house just like her brother, with a detective consultancy and mysteries that are solved by knowing things about the world of women in the late Victorian era.

However, the delays between films have been a little rough, especially for Brown, who remained committed to Stranger Things despite mounting delays in filming the final two seasons. Stranger Things may still be trying to pretend Brown isn't a day over 16, but the 21-year-old actor has grown up, and the film franchise has done a speed run through Springer's books, jumping to the later ones where Enola is a young adult heading out on her own by the second film. The third film has an entirely new plot that, as yet, does not seem to connect back to the Springer books, instead taking the movies in their own direction.